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Library of Congress Digitizes NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Documents
The Library of Congress announced that “[a] major portion of the processed records of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund are now available online for the first time. … Spanning the years 1915–1968, with most dating from 1940 to 1960, these records document the organization’s work as it combated racial discrimination in the nation’s courts, establishing in the process a public interest legal practice that was unprecedented in American jurisprudence.”The Library of Congress shares the following collection highlights: - Correspondence about Josephine Baker’s treatment at the Stork Club in New York in 1951
- Letters from 1955 between Thurgood Marshall and Simeon Booker, Washington bureau chief for Jet magazine, about witnesses for the Emmett Till trial
- A letter from Langston Hughes to Henry Lee Moon about his poem, “The Ballad of Harry Moore,” from 1952
- Documents related to the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education
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